Plate-glass setting.



W. R. GRISSEL-& H. S. JOSSELYN. PLATE GLASS SETTING. APPLICATION FILED11.11, 10.

Patented Jan. 10, 1911.

. 22 Nl! W 'UNITED OFFICE.)

WALTER R. GRISSEL AND HENRY S. JOSSELYN, 0F CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.

PLATE-GLASS SETTING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 10, 1911.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, WALTER R. Gaussian andHENRY S. JossELYN, citizens of the United States of America, residing atCedar Rapids, in the county of Linn and State of Iowa, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Plate-Glass Settings, of whichthe following is a specifica tion, reference being had therein to theaccompanying drawing.

This invention relates to improvements in plate glass settings, and hasfor its primary object to provide a setting which Wlll permit of theplate glass being placed in position from the outside of the building,and thereby greatly facilitate the set-ting ofplate glass in position.

vide means whereby to effectually resist the heavy wind pressure towhich large glass plates are subjected and to reduce to a m ni- 'mum thedanger of the plate glass being broken under such pressure.

With the above broad objects in view, and other minor ones which willappear as the invention is more fully described, the invention consistsin the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as willbe hereinafter described and then particularly claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings forming a part of this a-pplica tion and whereinlike numerals of reference will be employed to indicate like partsthroughout the different views in which:

Figure 1 is an elevation of a window partly broken away and illustratingthe application of our improved setting thereto; Fig. 2 is a detailsectlonal view taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar viewtaken on line 33 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detached view in rear elevationof a part of one of the securing strips for the late glass, and, Fig. 5is a bottom view 0 the same.

In the drawings, 10 designates the frame of the window, which, in orderto accommodate a setting constructed in accordance with our invention isprovided with an outwardly-extending off-set or strip 11 extending atright angles to the frame 10, andv fixedly secured thereto.

the window frame, and the outer face of This offset or strip is ofconsiderably less width than the frame 10, thereby providing a recessall around plate glass 15 is preferably supported along:

its lower edge by supporting blocks 16 which in practice, we havepreferably made from sheets of lead, the same forming a very desirableaswell as cheap support for the glass. The openinglin the frame whichreceives the glass is ma, e somewhat larger than the dimensions of theglass plate, and in practice Another object of the invention is to prowehave made said opening of a size so'that andvwhich'lin practice are soshaped as-to provide a face plate t'o-represent any desired molding orheading. These strips 17 are secured to blocks 18 by means of which theshape of the strips is retained and through which arepassed thehold-fastdevices 19 by which the securing strips are firmly alt-IItached to the frame. The said strips "are each turned inwardly along itsouter edge to form an underlying portion spaced from the face plate andprovided substantially mid-way its width with a longitudinallyextending.rib 20 which engages the outer face of the glass plate 15 at a point inline with the corrugated strip 14. The blocks 18 are placed within thesecuring strip 17 at intervals, usually about a foot apart, being soshaped as to conform to the face plate with a portion projecting intothe space between the face plate and the underlying portion and betweenthese blocks the seouter edges of the baffle plates 22 are in line withthe rear edges of the strips 17, and these baffle plates being placeddirectly be low the openings 23, tend to prevent a free suction of dustinto the building through the "entilati'ng and drip openings 23. p

The blocks 18 may be made of any desired material, and on their innerfaces are preferably provided with recesses in which are seated rubberor other resilient blocks 24, through which the hold-fast devices 19 arepassed, the said resilient blocks or buffersQL extending a slightdistance beyond zthe inner faces of the blocks 18 and resting againstthe metal facing 12. By this construction it will'be observed that theplate glass'is yieldingly seated to resist inward pressure, thecorrugated metal strips 14 yielding under pressure Whichwould force thethe rib 20 yielding under such pressure.

glass inwardly, and the glass is also yieldingly seated against anyoutward pressure,

Since the strips 17 are also. yieldingly mounted owing to the provisionof the buffers 2 1, it will be observed that the holdfast devices may befirmly turned home, the

bufie'rs 24L compressing under the tightening sure so as to preventbreaking, and danger of the glass breaking during its return movementwhen the pressure is relieved is also entirely obviated by reason of theyielding means employed for securing the glass in position.

What we claim is:

1. In a plate glass setting, the combination with a frame to receive theplate glass, of a yieldingly-mounted securing strip binding the glass atits edges to the frame, said strip formed of sheet metal bent to form aface plate and a backwardly-bent outer edge underlying theface plate andspaced there from, said underlying portion provided with a rib to engagethe plate lass, strengthening blocks with which the face plate of saidstrip engages between the face plate and the underlying portion of thestrip, and securing means passing through t 1e strip and blocks and intothe frame.

-2. In a plate glass setting, the combination with a frame, of asecuring strip formed of sheet metal bent to form a face plate and anunderlying portion spaced from the face plate, said underlying portionhaving a rib intermediate its edges, strengthening blocks against whichthe face plate rests and having portions projecting into the spacebetween the face plate and the underlying portion of the strip, andmeans for securing the strip and blocks to the frame.

In testimony whereof we affix our signa- M tures in the presence of twowitnesses.

WALTER R. GRISSEL. HENRY s. JOSSELYN.

lVitnesses L. M. CAVANAUGH, A. H. CONN.

